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It is a long weekend here and the busiest of the year for travel and tourists. There is also high heat warnings just about everywhere in British Columbia. So we got off the roads and found the coolest place in the province at the north end of an island. We are at this strange resort/campground place. It is really chilled but it will be a long long weekend with all these people around us.....normally we are not around so many people, but there isn't too much to choose from in this location. Time to get a beer and watch the campground show......never a dull moment with life on the road!

Got to be done......it's the only way to avoid the heat if you're out on the bike! Bear in mind that I live at 3000ft anyway, so I have to go way above that to get a 10C drop in temperatures. Nice when you're up there, but once you start descending again the heat really hits you. I'm not that keen on the roads either! Yes they're twisty and winding but the variable surface and bad tarmac aren't too clever! Plus, the road is narrow and very often you can be in the middle of a bend and find a car on the wrong side of the road coming right at you. On occasions there's a sheer drop of hundreds of feet on the bends as well.....so it's not a road for Casuals! Bike went superbly......so easy to manage, and quite frankly, any more power and weight would be of no use to you in this sort of environment.

I was tempted by @Sir Fallsalot’s entry because it sums up everything I love about off road exploration but………@Six30’s bike looks ‘ard as fuck…….gotta love the street fighter vibe and for that reason I’m in!

So am I right in thinking that @Slowlycatchymonkey is riding her bike around Scotland/UK ? and yet we haven't seen a single photo have we ? Fuckmine, this is worse that one of @Six30 excursions, at least he gets the bike out of the van and takes a photo Come on @Slowlycatchymonkey what are you doing ??

@Six30, voted for your picture. That bike makes me want to do things...

I thought it was the euthanasia poll, but realised I was wrong so changed my vote.

Apparently a Scottish midget stole her camera and can of Special Brew after dry bumming her outside a chip shop

Got the family barbecue today, date celebrates grandad Clives birthday, grandad to my kids. Promised my mate we'd finish getting his 3ltr capri engine back together this morn and hopefully strip out the gearbox if time. Plenty of motor racing on this weekend too.

That’s why I’m driving, you guys got it covered

My kind of tent @Marcel

I would try and see if you could get someone to redo your stock seat for you, using your own frame, and if it works then sell the “comfort” as that’s clearly not what you want. I’m always saying stuff like this but I hate placing adds and selling stuff, people start talking price and I tell them to fuck off.

Is that the same as the only person riding Yesterday was me

She probably ran into Buckster and is now locked in one of his sound proof cupboards.

Do you have a link for the tickets?

That's made me come over all peculiar. Which one is your house?

That’s so wrong, they don’t drink Special Brew in Scotland.

Doesn’t look like it.

Damn right, no one is expecting her to display photography skills on a par with mine but come on, make an effort.

Girls bike. I’m sure it will be ideal for @Slowlycatchymonkey.

I'm liking Pedro's roast mainly because he didn't roast me this month

Tomorrow I’ll go visit my place for a couple of nights, check how things sre going in the extreme temperatures over the last weeks as it got to 47° there. Will be driving in my comfy airconditioned car as it’ll get to 37 or 39º over the weekend, and that’s just ruining tires on the motorway with little enjoyment.

Fucking Slavs.....they're not fucking right in the head! Pity my boy couldn't have got himself a nice Penlan girl......one of them would have made him get his act together!

The weather don't look too good this weekend so i might just sit around here and cheer myself up reading about Pete's woes they should be good now he has two poles to deal with

I did 120 miles on Thursday but it was just going to work and then back and forth to a few sites when I got there. I also went to the Isle of Dogs Asda to see if I could see the large man who demands a pound from people as they return their trollies and gets violent if they say no but he wasn't there, I heard an old Italian man decked him the day before. The police never seem to keep hold of him for long. Up the road from Asda is another large man known as The Blue bridge Man who walks up and down the same street (by the Blue Bridge) then deliberately barging into people and then threatening them for getting in his way. The police keep letting him off with a warning as well. Two nut-nuts so close is strange. I wonder what would happen if I could get them to meet? First time I've dared ride the bike since my back went twang last Wednesday week. I thought long and hard before deciding fuck it and putting it on the centre stand when I got home, it's a git to do that, especially compared to the Versys. Back out for a short trip tomorrow.

Fucking birds been eating my dessert

Even her husband probably doesn’t do that, Bob, not a useful advice! Bob’s right, though, Pete

At your age you shouldn’t be working 6 days a week, fuck the Polish fat cow off and get out riding

So does your reason for owning guns.

Not to mention i rode Wednesday and Thursday night so between us we pretty much have last week covered

That's the way to do it Marcel!

Funny enough that, BMW said the same thing with the oil/aircooled boxer when they went watercooled, but then the R nine t came along, and 10 years later using some clever injection patterns and airflows they’re still using that. If they make a proper GS with that boxer and a big front wheel I’ll buy one. What you can’t get without water cooling while complying with euro5 in modern engines is power, which is what BMW needed to keep in the same neighbourhood of performance once KTM and Ducati woke up to touring trailies, but that’s clearly not a concern to BSA. Water cooling is also what probably makes that cylinder look so big, even for a 650, not the prettiest engine ever but the bike has got a pretty rear. If ever there was a bike meant for people who like ass over tits…

Proper road, Pete!

didn't click on video ..... 70's porn music is so 1970's

Most of us are working on Friday Bob! Though most of my working life I had to work Saturdays as well.

Cue @XTreme mode.............. Buckster's coming up from behind

And the US of A is proud of it!

Ok, you win, absolutely and categorically!! And from now on BOTM cannot happen without an essay like this ever again!! Spot on, to the point, you could be from Yorkshire, but with better english! Love it!!

I just realised the google car has been around that track if your board have a look around. weather wasn't so good for google though link takes you to where i took the photo. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2900397,-3.7289796,3a,75y,120.42h,76.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNoi8ukxq--jFoNW3XAHMzQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Sounds like your living the dream. Have you met the Gornickes yet LOL

Jesus wants me for a sunbeam

Little darlinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ..........

My vote is hanging between @Sir Fallsalot and @Sofia, Fred's picture is just dirtroad bliss and Sofia's is just a pretty bike with amazing light and a shape I am fond of, I know how happy she was to be riding her bike to that location for the sunset so it does help. I´ll see tomorrow or after if my vote is decisive towards one or the other. Regarding the rest: @Tym put a shotgun on his KLR and rode around the farm / town looking from people parking wrongly, not sure one should encourage that! @XTreme's is a nice location, but the picture is shit. There's more railing than bike on that picture, and the tall windscreen to bike ratio makes it look like those guys with big foreheads from startrek. Doesn't have a top box, which probably sent Pete insane with anxiety, but the sun is on the wrong side! Engine should be getting sunlight! @Marcel's is a cool picture, it's a cool bike and a very cool scenery. I dislike orange bikes but in this case it works with the scenery colors, however the bike raped poor Marcel throughout that trip and as such doesn't deserve BOTM. It's a cool picture though, I might vote for it. @boboneleg's Ducati is a cool looking bike, I like the red but dislike the golden wheels. Gold wire wheels belong on an 80s or 90s japanese bike, regardless of the wheels, grey skies like that make it hard for me to like a picture, not his fault but there you go. @Six30's, it's a Suzuki in front of the corner of a coffee shop, seems like you want to not get votes because you take a shit picture, that's a step away from Rich who likes to take pictures with dumpsters as scenery. @Richzx6r, by the way, was playing Card Fogarty wannabe and didn't have a single cool picture to submit, I rest my case. @Buckster's Harley, I really like the bike and it´s pose, love that front wheel, bike is standing like a proud beast but the scenery isn't great. Lack of effort after being in amazing locations this month, slipping to old habits?

Here it is, resting

Motorbike motorbike , top box , throttle clutch lever , quick shifter , there you go , that should level this up a bit .